Richard E. Band's Profitable Investing

Richard E. Band is the newsletter world's #1 authorityon investing for low-risk growth. His flagship Total Return Portfolio has tripled in value since its inception in 1990, while taking far less risk than the popular stock market index funds.

I’d like to know where my profits are.

I have been subscribing to Profitable Investing (P.I.) for over ten years, and I’d like to know where my profits are. I found this web site looking for P.I. returns for 2008 because Richard Band did not publish the 2008 performance in his newsletter. Richard Band did, however, say it was ‘painful’. I could buy these figures from Hulbert, but isn’t it outrageous that the performance figures are not inclusive in the subscription?

I know you won’t believe this, but I lost money in the stock...

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not abandoned the slow and steady value-oriented approach

Steady, reasoned, consistent, all the adjectives you would look for in a financial advisor. I have subscribed for a couple of decades, and if I hadn’t gone off with new suitors on occaision such as Navellier, etc., I would have more of my assets intact. Richard has had his toughest year, but has not abandoned the slow and steady value-oriented approach to managing your portfolio.

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don’t count on Richard Bland to lead you to riches.

I always called him Richard “Bland”, because of the conservative nature of his recommendations. He deserves credit for two things: (1) He has always emphasized dividend paying stocks to be purchased when in value mode;

(2) his copy is always a “good read” and of educational value.

It has been a few years since I stopped my subscription, but more recently, judging from the promotional email teasers I receive, he seems to be joining the more boisterous doom and gloom group exemplified by Martin Weiss and gang. “The world will fall apart but I will save you” type of promotion. His ability to pull that off is highly questionable when you consider his track record, which is good if you believe beating the S&P by seldom more than 2% is good enough. He cannot claim much more than that, and Hulbert’s Financial Digest doesn’t rate him highly either. But, what the heck,

2% better than S&P might be something to brag about these days. Let’s just say, if you have significant savings, Profitable Investing may help you keep it. If you don’t, don’t count on Richard Bland to lead you to riches.

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if I had stayed solely with Richard, I would have far more wealth than I have today.

Thanks for the opportunity to extol the virtues of a newsletter that I’m stunned is not yet listed in the rankings.

I have subscribed to Richard E. Band’s ‘Profitable Investing’ since around 1986. Current rate for a single year of 12 issues plus 24/7 website access, weekly (at least) Richard’s Journal updates, and as-needed Flash Alerts posted and/or by email, is $249.00. The price has risen very slowly from $179.00 as I recall to today’s fee. Multi-year rates are less.

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This review is the subjective opinion of an Investimonials member and not of Investimonials LLC